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‘Full PPE’ shouldn’t be a catch-all solution

When it comes to control measures for workplace risks, we know that there’s a clear hierarchy of responses. Once a risk assessment has highlighted hazards in your workplace, the first aim should always be to eliminate them.

If this is not possible, then you look to replace the risk factor, isolate it, or separate individuals from the risk through barriers and routines. In other words, you should always take the most comprehensive form of protection possible (Read More)

The new PPE Regulations – What you Don’t Know Could Hurt you

Arco sets out the responsibilities of purchasers under the new PPE Regulation

Arco, the UK’s leading safety company, is leading the way in helping buyers navigate the complicated waters of the new PPE Regulation with clear, expert guidance and an assurance that its own products will fully comply with the requirements of the new legislation by the required transition end date.

The new PPE Regulation (EU) 2016/425 brings about the most significant changes to the rules on PPE, since the introduction of the first Directive over 20 years ago.  The changes are designed to ensure ongoing product safety and assurance and to better reflect the needs of those buying and using PPE to keep them safe at work.  

From 21st April 2018, (Read More)

Empteezy are delighted to announce the launch of our galvanised steel pallets range.

Although IBCs and drums are regarded as one of the safest ways of transporting liquids, accidents still happen. Bu housing your storage container on a spill pallet you reduce the risk and ensure compliance.

For drum and IBC storage applications where polyethylene spill pallets might not be suitable, we now offer four sizes of spill pallet manufactured from 2mm structural grade galvanised steel which are fully compliant with all current UK regulations in relation to sump capacities (not less than 110% of the largest container’s storage capacity or 25% of their aggregate storage capacity, whichever is the greater).

These are fitted with galvanised legs to make positioning by pallet truck or fork lift easy and to ensure the underside of the sump doesn’t come into contact the ground. (Read More)

Reid Lifting Wins Fourth Queen’s Award for International Trade

Chepstow, Wales-based Reid Lifting, a manufacturer of lightweight gantry and davit cranes, has claimed its fourth Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, this time for outstanding achievement in international trade over the last three years.

Reid, which has been trading since 2000, received an initial award for innovation six years after inauguration before a double success, in the same category in addition to recognition (Read More) 

Develop Training Limited (DTL) is running a series of free High Voltage awareness days in late May.

The events have been specially designed for authorising engineers, authorised persons and competent persons in the healthcare, facilities and utilities sectors as well as the MoD.

They are also open to managers and other personnel responsible for training people to work in HV settings. (Read More)

Panama Project Puts Mechan On Map In The Americas

Rail depot equipment specialist, Mechan, is expanding its export horizons and preparing to ship its very first order to the Americas.

The Sheffield-based manufacturer is supplying heavy lifting equipment to the Panama City Metro, as part of a major project to construct a second line in the republic’s capital.

Mechan is working with parent company, CIM Group, to deliver a set of 20 12-tonne lifting jacks, four turntables and 40 (Read More)

Don’t Slip Up: Protecting Against Slips And Trips

We’ve all done it. You’re running where you shouldn’t be, you aren’t paying attention to the environment around you, or you’ve opted to wear a new, slightly too slick pair of shoes. Suddenly the floor gives out beneath you, you lollop around like a newborn giraffe, and you try not to fall over.

Yet taken together, slips, trips and falls were the most common cause of non-fatal injuries in the workplace in 2016/17, (Read More)

Watch Your Step: Protecting Against Slips, Trips And Falls

Slips, trips and falls are the most common cause of injury at work, causing 29% of all non-fatal injuries to employees.

Slips, trips and falls are the most common cause of injury at work, causing 29% of all non-fatal injuries to employees . Despite this, slip and trip accidents tend to be seen as an avoidable, reasonable risk, something to expected throughout the everyday working routine. With 70,116 non-fatal employee injuries under RIDDOR last year… that equate to more than 20,333 injuries by slips, trips and falls, does this sound simple and avoidable to you?  

Wearing the right type of protective footwear could be the key to decreasing these figures. (Read More)

Straightpoint Offers Two-Year Warranty as Standard

Straightpoint (SP) is offering a two-year warranty as standard on its full range of load cells and other force measurement equipment, effective 1 April 2018.

SP customers could previously extend their warranty from one to two years if they completed a registration form upon purchase of a product, but the 24-month term is now honoured as standard across the catalogue of products, from the best-selling Radiolink plus load cell to its latest innovation, (Read More)

New Kalrez® 7375 Range Of FFKM Sealing Products Offer Outstanding Properties & Performance

The new DuPont™ Kalrez® 7375 innovative FFKM sealing products provide high temperature as well as broad chemical and water/steam resistance properties.

Sealing performance, reliability and safety are ensured for applications in the most demanding industrial, chemical and general industrial fields of operation. These high performance perfluoroelastomer O-ring components (Read More)